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Institutional Innovation for Sustainable Growth: Leveraging Community Models and Collaborative Mechanisms towards resource-efficient markets and economies

As India is witnessing rapid economic transitions under a young demographic backdrop, the administrative systems are also witnessing a period of dynamic transition as Information Technology is improving last mile delivery and the efforts to catalyse Cooperative Federalism have been initiated through the Niti Aayog. It is evident that for …

Enhancing the 5 capitals – reducing our footprints and living in balance

The exchange of goods and services amongst people represents the economy as we know it today. However, we know that these transactions draw upon resources in the natural system represented by exchanges between people and nature. This heavily influences interactions within the natural system impacting the capacities of the natural …

Commitment to Implementation: Gearing up for COP22

The Paris Agreement reached the threshold for formally entering into force this October, bringing into existence the first-ever universal, legally binding global climate deal. Until now as signatories to the agreement, it was just a commitment. But now after 55 countries with cumulative emissions accounting for 55% of the global …